Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-05 Thread Yasha Karant
At one time we faced a perhaps similar dilemma: hardware with proprietary software/firmware that would not support then current security/encryption methods/protocols. The hardware could not be replaced for two reasons: it was integrated into specific systems that were in use; the vendor did

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-05 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
> > > > > > > Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm > > > > > > Running an unmaintained, out-of-date, password based service like FTP ... > > > > I would presume the OP has a clue ... > > Why would you presume this? ... > bah, hambug! He uses Linux, he has a clue. Most likely

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 11:23 PM Andrew Komornicki wrote: > > > Hi, > > Has anyone considered using secure ftp, sftp. It is much more secure > and readily available. Just like SSH secure shell. > > regards, > Andrew In practical terms. SFTP has little to no advantage over FTPS, SSL enabled

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 11:12 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > > > > > Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm > > > > Running an unmaintained, out-of-date, password based service like FTP > > on an obsolete and unsupported operating system is begging for a lot > > of trouble if

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-04 Thread Andrew Komornicki
Hi, Has anyone considered using secure ftp, sftp. It is much more secure and readily available. Just like SSH secure shell. regards, Andrew On 11/4/2021 8:12 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: >> >>> Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm >> >> Running an unmaintained,

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-04 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
> > > Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm > > Running an unmaintained, out-of-date, password based service like FTP > on an obsolete and unsupported operating system is begging for a lot > of trouble if the machine is ever probed by a rootkit. Are you sure > about doing this?

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-04 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, Larry Linder wrote: Thank You all. I have a copy of the .iso disk on box. Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm Archive manager works pretty nicely. Hmm. I guess that the version on the .iso will be older than the one in the obsolete directory.

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:38 AM Larry Linder <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > Thank You all. > I have a copy of the .iso disk on box. > Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm > Archive manager works pretty nicely. > > Larry Linder Wait, what? vsftpd

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-04 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 10:38:29AM -0400, Larry Linder wrote: > > > > Any one have an idea how to install ftp. > The ftp packages are right there on the SL download site:

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-04 Thread Larry Linder
Thank You all. I have a copy of the .iso disk on box. Once I had a clue I was able to install the vsftpd rpm Archive manager works pretty nicely. Larry Linder On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 12:19 +0100, Francesco Alfano wrote: > You can try download and install vsftpd from > >

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
You can rewrite the yum configurations to point to the obsolete mirror, or pull down the RPMs directly from the obsolete mirror and use "rpm -U filename.rpm" to insall them locally. On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 5:00 PM Vinícius Ferrão <11d646aef28a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > You

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-03 Thread Vinícius Ferrão
You can mount the ISO and point the repos to Packages dir. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Nov 2021, at 17:52, Larry Linder > <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > This is out of date but due to what is running on box we need to add ftp > and yum will not work because it is

Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-03 Thread Larry Linder
This is out of date but due to what is running on box we need to add ftp and yum will not work because it is not supported. It is only available in the obsolete directory. You can get the .iso's but we do not want to reinstall the OS. Any one have an idea how to install ftp. Or how to get the

Re: SL 6

2020-10-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 2:37 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:39:13AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > > > > If you know the magic incantation to boot old SL/RHEL images (tarballs or > > > rsync's) > > > in a container on RHEL 7 or 8 or on Ubuntu LTS 20.04, or

Re: SL 6

2020-10-17 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:39:13AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > > If you know the magic incantation to boot old SL/RHEL images (tarballs or > > rsync's) > > in a container on RHEL 7 or 8 or on Ubuntu LTS 20.04, or if you can point > > me to such incantations, > > I would greatly

Re: SL 6

2020-10-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:20 AM Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > > > > > > Is it "too hard" to provide a solution for the OP and for myself? How come > > > RHEL/SL/CentOS-8 does not come preinstalled with a package > > > to "boot an SL3/SL4/SL5/RHEL6/RHEL7 VM image now!". (Yes, we still have > >

Re: SL 6

2020-10-16 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
> > > > Is it "too hard" to provide a solution for the OP and for myself? How come > > RHEL/SL/CentOS-8 does not come preinstalled with a package > > to "boot an SL3/SL4/SL5/RHEL6/RHEL7 VM image now!". (Yes, we still have > > hardware that required an m68k crosscompiler that runs on SL4. We even

Re: SL 6

2020-10-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 3:48 PM Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > > > > ... you have locked licenses for expensive old CAD software? > > ... vendor has failed to keep their software up to date with operating > > system releases ... > > ... not Scientific Linux's fault. > > > > Ah... the sound of

Re: SL 6

2020-10-16 Thread Stephan Wiesand
> On 16. Oct 2020, at 21:48, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > >> >> ... you have locked licenses for expensive old CAD software? >> ... vendor has failed to keep their software up to date with operating >> system releases ... >> ... not Scientific Linux's fault. >> > > Ah... the sound of Linux

Re: SL 6

2020-10-16 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
> > ... you have locked licenses for expensive old CAD software? > ... vendor has failed to keep their software up to date with operating > system releases ... > ... not Scientific Linux's fault. > Ah... the sound of Linux walking away from old-time Linux users... To me it looks like "Linux

Re: SL 6

2020-10-15 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:21 AM Larry Linder < 0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > I would be interested in a contribution to help support this effort. > > We have a number of SL 6.9 boxes, we would stay there for a while as all > of our cad tools work. There are some

Re: SL 6

2020-10-15 Thread Brett Viren
Nico Kadel-Garcia writes: > And oh, my, if you want to discard systemd, you'll need to go to an OS > based on an entirely distinct kernel, say one of the BSD's. Here are some Linux-based options sans systemd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd -Brett.

Re: SL 6

2020-10-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 2:20 PM Larry Linder <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > I would be interested in a contribution to help support this effort. > > We have a number of SL 6.9 boxes, we would stay there for a while as all > of our cad tools work. There are some

SL 6

2020-10-14 Thread Larry Linder
I would be interested in a contribution to help support this effort. We have a number of SL 6.9 boxes, we would stay there for a while as all of our cad tools work. There are some things it doesn't have but we have never noticed them because they are not useful in the the day to day running of a

Re: systemctl equivalent in SL 6.X?

2017-07-11 Thread Gilbert E. Detillieux
the "telinit q" command to accomplish the roughly equivalent task. In SL 6.x, the upstart init daemon apparently doesn't ever need a "telinit q" to reread all the config files, as it's monitoring them for any changes (according to the "telinit" man page on

Re: systemctl equivalent in SL 6.X?

2017-07-11 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:42:07AM -0500, Stan Orlov wrote: > > I am following instructions to install AtoM (Access to Memory) and one of the > steps is to run: > systemctl daemon-reload > Since I am on SL 6.9, and don't have systemd, how should I do this reload? > If you follow el7

systemctl equivalent in SL 6.X?

2017-07-11 Thread Stan Orlov
Greetings, I am following instructions to install AtoM (Access to Memory) and one of the steps is to run: systemctl daemon-reload Since I am on SL 6.9, and don't have systemd, how should I do this reload? Stan

hibernating with power-button in SL 6

2017-03-26 Thread Globe Trotter
Hi, I wanted to change my power-button one-tap configuration in SL 6 to hibernate. I tried replacing 'shutdown -h now' with 'pm-hibernate' in /etc/acpi/actions/powerbutton.conf but nothing happened in the sense that pressing the power button did nothing. Any suggestions to what I should do. Btw

SL 6 IA-32 hplip-3.14.10 HP M225dw driver

2015-08-11 Thread Yasha Karant
I have a colleague for whom I have installed IA-32 SL 6 . She has recently purchased a HP M225dw all-in-one laser printer. However, I cannot find a driver for this printer for SL 6. HP open systems supported this printer starting with hplip-3.14.10, but I cannot find this RPM for SL 6

RE: libuser security update for SL 6

2015-07-30 Thread peter.chiu
; scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Subject: RE: libuser security update for SL 6 Many thanks, Pat, It is good to know they are forthcoming. Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: Patrick Riehecky [mailto:riehe...@fnal.gov] Sent: 28 July 2015 00:44 To: Chiu, Peter (STFC,RAL,RALSP

RE: libuser security update for SL 6

2015-07-28 Thread peter.chiu
Many thanks, Pat, It is good to know they are forthcoming. Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: Patrick Riehecky [mailto:riehe...@fnal.gov] Sent: 28 July 2015 00:44 To: Chiu, Peter (STFC,RAL,RALSP); scientific-linux-users Subject: RE: libuser security update for SL 6 The libuser

Re: libuser security update for SL 6

2015-07-27 Thread Steve Gaarder
wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6? RHEL 6.7 was released a few days ago. I see that the latest libuser package is an update to 6.7. Akemi

Re: libuser security update for SL 6

2015-07-27 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:25 AM, peter.c...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: Hello, I wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6? RHEL 6.7 was released a few days ago. I see that the latest libuser package is an update to 6.7. Akemi

libuser security update for SL 6

2015-07-27 Thread peter.chiu
Hello, I wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6? Thanks a lot. Peter

RE: libuser security update for SL 6

2015-07-27 Thread Patrick Riehecky
Subject: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] libuser security update for SL 6 Hello, I wonder if there is any news on the security update on libuser for SL 6? Thanks a lot. Peter

Migrating old SL 5 Xen server and guests to SL 6

2015-02-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I'm dealing with a Xen 3 server on SL 5 operating system with SL 5 para virtualized guests on it. But I'm having a heck of a time updating guests, getting them CD booted with console access to start the process. Any good pointers with the Xen 3.x built into SL 5 would be welcome. I know it's

Re: Migrating old SL 5 Xen server and guests to SL 6

2015-02-20 Thread Steven Timm
It depends how you set up your Xen on SL5 initially.. If you installed them with virt-install and they are installed on a whole device (/dev/xvda, etc.) then it is pretty easy to flip over to kvm or bring forward to sl6 and beyond. If you installed them on individual file systems, e.g.

Re: Migrating old SL 5 Xen server and guests to SL 6

2015-02-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Throwing out old manually defined files from /etc/xen and starting with virt-install is allowing me to install fully virtualized CentOS and SL 6 servers for now. I'm afraid I'll have to wait until updating the Xen server to switch them to para-virtualization, which I'd really prefer. Nico

Re: Migrating old SL 5 Xen server and guests to SL 6

2015-02-20 Thread Steven Haigh
Configuation wise - it should be pretty much the same. I haven't changed my config template for *many* years and it still works with SL6 and Xen 4.5.0. If you followed the best practices back in the day, you used LVM as the storage method and have an LV for each DomU that you run. The only real

Re: Migrating old SL 5 Xen server and guests to SL 6

2015-02-20 Thread Steven Haigh
virtualized CentOS and SL 6 servers for now. I'm afraid I'll have to wait until updating the Xen server to switch them to para-virtualization, which I'd really prefer. Nico Kadel-Garcia Email: nka...@gmail.com Sent from iPhone On Feb 20, 2015, at 12:21, Steven Haigh net...@crc.id.au wrote

Re: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6

2014-04-27 Thread David Sommerseth
- Opprinnelig melding - Fra: C.G. van der Werf (Carel) c.g.vanderw...@uu.nl Til: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Sendt: 26. april 2014 09:44:20 Emne: RE: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6 Any Chance that other relevant packages could be part of this software

Re: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6

2014-04-27 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
for SL 6 Any Chance that other relevant packages could be part of this software collection ? I'm still looking for a qualified repository for newer apache-server versions. (SL6x comes with Apache 2.2.15, while latest version is 2.2.27...) Good luck with that! Apache httpd does not follow

RE: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6

2014-04-26 Thread Werf, C.G. van der (Carel)
-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Orion Poplawski Sent: 24 April, 2014 23:21 To: Connie Sieh; scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Subject: Re: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6 (fwd) On 10/17/2013 02:27 PM, Connie

Re: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6

2014-04-26 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 04/26/2014 01:44 AM, Werf, C.G. van der (Carel) wrote: Any Chance that other relevant packages could be part of this software collection ? It's a rebuild of RHEL's upstream collections, so it's really up to them for this particular set of collections. I'm still looking for a qualified

Re: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6 (fwd)

2014-04-24 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 10/17/2013 02:27 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:25:39 -0500 From: Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov To: cs...@fnal.gov Subject: Software Collections 1.0 is available for SL 6 The following TUV software collection products are now available

oracle ias 10g on SL 6.x ?

2014-04-09 Thread Howard, Chris
I did a search of the archives of this group, keyword: Oracle. Low and Behold, it looks like I am the instigator of most such questions. With the OpenSSL thing and the PCI thread, I'm thinking that it would be really nice to be running SL 6.x instead of 5.x these days. But my reason

Re: Software Collections 1.0 is available for testing for SL 6

2013-09-25 Thread Connie Sieh
for SL 6. Use --enablerepo=sl-testing to enable yum to access these products. More info on these products is available at http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/ https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Developer_Guide/chap-RHSCL.html

Re: Software Collections 1.0 is available for testing for SL 6

2013-09-25 Thread Ben
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:02:14AM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Matthieu Guionnet wrote: thanks for this very good news ! the repository is sl-testing ! does it mean that it'll be later on main repo sl ? Why you don't create a new repo like you've done for devtoolset ?

Software Collections 1.0 is available for testing for SL 6

2013-09-24 Thread Connie Sieh
The following software collection products are now available for testing for SL 6. Use --enablerepo=sl-testing to enable yum to access these products. More info on these products is available at http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/ https://access.redhat.com/site